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Although fairly easy to spot visually or audibly with a suitable detector, the effective radius of the anomaly may extend outward beyond the visible manifestation and be easily triggered by inexperienced stalkers.

This is referred to as "Fruit Punch" in the retail game. For LA the renaming is probably intended to be a tribute to anomalies mentioned in the book 'Roadside Picnic'.

Gamefile data refers to this anomaly as "zone_buzz" and assigned a class value of 'ZS_MBALD', rather than referring to it as the more intuitive "zone_withchesgalantine" (which is used for Electro anomalies) To further confuse the issue, the artifacts are referred to as af_ameba_slime, af_ameba_slug and af_ameba_mica although they are unconnected with the "zone_ameba" anomaly, which spawns Thorn, Crystal Thorn and Urchin artifacts.

Later gamefiles also have "zone_isparenie" performing spawns similar to "zone_buzz" (v1.4002+)[Fact?]

(It would be appreciated if players could help clarify this develomental quagmire by reporting their spawn finds with reference to the console prompt to determine which of these anomalies yield results)